The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1899. -Tall .DECEMBER 3, 1899 SUNDAY ELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. SPRECK Address All Communicat PUBLICATION OFFICE. Telep EDITORIAL ROOMS......217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. DAIL SUADAY CALL One Year.. WEEKLY CALL One Year Sample coples w I be forwarded when re. OAKLAND OFFICE. .. ves 008 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNES Manager Foreign Advert: ing, Chie: NEW YORK \‘JDHII»!N!DE‘TI €. C. CARLTON. ... vses.Herald Sguare NEwW I'(Illl\'illlr PERRY LUKENS JR... ENTATIVE: +++29 Tribune Bullding NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK VEWS STANDS: orf-Astor Square: Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. € NG OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel LISH, Correspon. BRANCH OFFIC ner Clay, ope G156 Larkin 1941 Mission 2261 Market 19 o'clock. sireet, open until ) o'clock. street, open until 10 o'clock. wsireel, corner Sixteenth, open nun 1096 Valencia 9 o'clock. 106 venth 9 o'clock. AW cky AMUSEMENTS. deville : ah.” ¥ to the King." leville every afternoon and 4 Ellls streets—Specialties. 1sland. Market plechase and Co f Manila Ba: street, Raseball tc t Tuesdny evening, December . rt Thursday afternoon, Decem- Turf Association—Rae morrow. December, 4, at 2 street and § THE SAN JOSE CELEBRATION. l)} EPARATIONS made at San Jose for the annmiversary of the or- government ¢ assures the com g. The date of the to Christmas day as a part of the Christmnas nd will give to San Jose a be memorable in her his- have seemin dertak 20, is so near is well worth celebrating. By a series istances the evolution of California st TC antic feature of American in the progressive civil- as had about it that a rm entur , of mystery or of strife | w re s it perennially interesting to mankind, to its own people. All the circum- from the raising of the settlement of the controversy in ssion of the territory to the are notable not onl them- men the brought to the It is a drama full of character as well as of tever serves to recall the memory those men is of value to the com- wl “ proud recollections, and her people litions of the years when she was of the State. Among her native sons and as well as among her pioneers are many ve she should still be the capital. Her people have ever been inclined to boast like Virgil ey are citizens of mean town.” They historic as well as a beautiful city, and their it can be counted on to render the celebra- er capital days a festival it will be worth g a long journey to attend. the best features of the event will be the it will give for another gathering of the pioneers on historic ground to do honor to men who were their comrades and colleagues and “pards” in the upbuilding of the State. It is gratifying to learn from reports that for the purpose of attending the gathering many picneers are coming from the East to meet once more with their acquaintances of the old time. That fact will tend to stimulate a more general nce of the pioneers whose homes are within the State, and, accordingly, the gatherings of these venerable men will doubtless be one of the chief fea- tures of the occasion. The programme arratiged is a most excellent one and combines both historic and spectacular features, hat the city will be beautifully adorned and that its homes who “no atter hout saying, for it is well known that in no place n the State is there a completer epitome of all that is, lovely and most charming in Californian life than in this same Garden City of the orchard county of our Golden State. President Jordan of Stanford has defined-a new principle in the ethics of football. He says there is a wide difference between jumping on a man and breaking his ribs and falling on him for the same pur- »se. The latter appears to be a legit the game. most e of Some of the American friends of whom Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secretary, boa should advise him to go into executive session with himself and remain there. International treaties are not made in after-dinner speeches. Bryan announces that he intends to spend the win- ter in converting New England to the silver standard, | and it is safe to predict he will find a frost wherever he goes and some of the coldest days in his history. Up to this time over 7000 exhibitors from the United States have applied for space at the Paris Ex- position, so it will be scen that our show over there will be one of the biggest on the grounds. [ A. Brentane, 31 Union | est settlement to its | be hospitably open during the festival goes | nate element | SOUND MONEY OPPOSED. HEN one is determined to create a reason \V where no good one exists the task is easy. Invention can always be substituted for- fact, and i others are misled thereby the purpose is ac- complished. The Chronicle is opposed to the sour!d money measures which it is hoped this Congress will speedily pass. It has seen in those measures a viola- tion of the Republican platform of 1896, and a new | departure in what is really a full return to a well- seasoned policy. The platiorm of 1806 promised an | effort to secure international bimetallism, whatever The experiment was tried in good faith by A commission of silver men, includ- |ing Adlai Stevenson, former Vice President, and Senator Wolcott of Colorado, was appointed and made a comprehensive canvass of every European Cabinet and discussed the question with the finance Ministers of all the European Governments which might usefully co-operate. None was found friendly to the proposition nor tolerant of another coinage and | ratio congress after the failure of all that had been held. There being no prospect of any international | action, should the Republican party ignore the pos- session of a majority in Congress, elected specifically upon pledges in the several States to enact pending | legislation, or should it go ahead in line with the \'ir‘mry it won on sound money in 18967 | Ii it refuse to use its present majority to redeem | the pledges which secured it, what will it do next | year?> Will it project international bimetallism into | the next campaign or redeem its promise of sound money by making another and raising against itself an issue of frivolity and bad faith? The Chronicle is void of advice as to what should be done next year if this legislation fail. It, like the very few party papers which stand with it, does not make any promise to support a perfectly sound money plank in the next platiorm. They will all probably appear advocating a plank to the effect that a pro- tective tariff has settled the money question, and that therefore the issue is eliminated from the campaign. As the Chronicle denies the need of financial re- form its policy is to accuse the reformers of creating a necessity. To this end it says that the recent re- demption of $18,000,000 of bonds by the treasury to put money in circulation and relieve financial strin- gency is a plot of the sound money men, intended to manufacture the appearance of a necessity for estab- lishing the gold standard. This is a harmful accusa cretary of the Treasury and the would not as- me to redeem or to issue bonds under any existing v without the approval of the President. | that is. | the President. tion against the S President himself, since the Secretary su | But is it true that such redemption of bonds can have any relation whatever to “the endless chain” or ‘t‘, any financial legislation to better existing condi- tions? Obviously it is not. Our statutes of finance, complex and vexatious, bear no relation to the re- demption of bonds at all. They aiflict the treasury | not through its bonded obligations, but by means of | the floating debt, in greenbacks proximately and ier forms of currency mediately, for the redemption | of which the treasury is obligated. If any one had | wanted to lay a plot, such as the Chronicle charges, 1d have been in the form of presenting $18,000,- 000 in greenbacks for redemption, which under ex- isting law would have to be reissued, and not in re- in bonds which are imme- diately and finally canceled and forever paid. Such presentation of greenbacks would have set the endless chai without the cancellation of a dollar of the public debt. | The Secretary of the Treasury has simply paid for the people that much of the interest-bearing public | debt and has saved them the interest thereon. Had | he redeemed greenbacks for immediate reissue he would have paid no debt and saved no interest. | More than this, he would have probably entered upon a process which would have reduced the gold reserve to a point at which the sale of more bonds wou'd have been required to replenish it, as was contem- plated by the Harrison administration and was twice actually done by Mr. Cleveland to maintain the sol- vency of the treasury and uphold the national credit. That the Chronicle should make such a charge or it W deeming that amount | which the unsound money faction in the party is | | always opposed. The proper place for that faction is with Bryan and Hogg. Bri | B — Once more there has been a serious accident on the Southern Pacific lines and once more the managers | of the road hold up their hands and swear they can- not learn how it happened but are sure there is no- body to blame except the public. .DIPLOMATIC RESERVE. HE opinion is rapidly growing in this country Tlh:( Embassador Choate may usefully practice more diplomatic reserve. | tion in London is not maintained as a gushery, and after-dinner speeches need not be used as an occasion for discussion of grave international problems which | concern the peace of the world. Much is said about | British sympathy and support for us in the Spanish war. Our people take it for granted that we had both, and it has passed into the fixed convictions of the American mind that England kept Continental | Europe off our backs during that brief struggle. But :none can recall any public expression to that effect uttered by Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Embas- sador at Washington. He may have had all the sym- pathy of a cousin or a brother-in-law, or other things- in-law, but he kept it to himself. It is true that the two South African republics are not known diplo- matically to the other nations, including our own, and it is also true that among the great monarchies of { Europe there is but little sympathy with the repub- | lics, while there may be much hatred of Great n. In this country there is not that general condition of hatred of England, but Americans sym- | pathize with the republics and devoutly hope for their | sictory. | Therefore it is an excess of politeness and a sur- ;'plm of cousinhood in Mr. Choate to say that while our Government is neutral our people are not, and | that American women especially cannot be restrained in their expression of support of England. Mr. St. John Gaffney, in the Albany (N. Y.) Times, | points out that at the recent pro-Boer meeting in New York City a dozen Governors of States and over a hundred members of Congress telegraphed their sympathy with the Boers, and he very pointedly | challenges the New York Tribune, which is pro- | British, to call a meeting in New York to express ! sympathy with Great Britain and test the condition of American sentiment. The agents of American expression, diplomatic and journalistic, owe it to their country no less than *o Great Britain to tell the truth about American’senti ment. They have no right to deceive that empire about the sentiment of this republic. Already British statesmen, relying on what Mr. Choate says and the Tribune and other American papers publish, are talking about a concert of England, Germany and the United States, a new tripartite alliance which is to be- 1 in motion to drain the treasury of gold | imply or insinuate it is evidence of the length to | R willing to go to prevent the reforms which it has | The American lega- | stride the world like a three-legged Colossus. Now there is not in this country any public sentiment to support such an extravagant expectation. We have done very well without any European al- liances, and we believe it to be the sincere purpose of our people to continue without any such entangle- ment. The royal families of England and Germany are blood kin, and may foregather as seems meet for their dynastic purposes, but we will not lightly abandon our position as a republic, which is a free agent and keeps a free hand as to all the rest of the world. If we are pursuing some outside purpose which would make such alliance necessary we would better aban- don it than seek to tie our hands in order to accom- plish it. THE CAMPAIGN FOR PROGRESS. ETWEEN now and the dates when the special B elections of next month are to be held a cam- paign of education on behalf of progress will be carried on in San Francisco. It will require two-thirds of the persons voting to carry the proposed measures. That is a heavy handicap in favor of silurianism, but | it need not depress the ardor of citizens of public spirit. On the contrary it should rouse them to earnest action and induce every one of them to give some portion of his time and his energies toward assisting in the campaign and helping to form a reso- lute popular sentiment in favor of the proposed im- provements. It is very well known that when no definite meas- | ure of improvement is before the people as a matter of practical politics, everybody is in favor of progress, but as soon as some particular plan is brought for- ward there is a swift revulsion of feeling on the part | of the non-progressive or fault-finding classes, and they begin at once to assail the plan. It is the old | story that mankind is divided into two classes, one of which goes ahead and does something and the other sits around and complains because it was not done in some other way. It is in San Francisco as in other localities. Many a man who professes loudiy his desire for municipal progress will oppose the im- provements now suggested either because he does not like some detail of the plan, or because he would like to see some other improvement made first. The opposition that will come from that class of people is rot to be despised. They will go to the polls vowing their devotion to progress and then vote against taking any step toward it. If more than one- third of the voters who cast their ballots at the elec- tion be of that disposition the measures will be de- feated. The duty of progressive citizens is therefore They must work diligently from now until the close of the elections to awaken the interest of their clear. | friends and acquaintances in the issue and confirm them in a resolve to vote and to vote right when the time comes. ; In a campaign of this kind it is not required that any man should give much of his time to the work. Tt will be sufficient if he make it a point to bring the subject up in the course of conversation at the clubs, on the streets and wherever men meet and have opportunities for discussing public affairs. Personal influence is much greater than most men suppose. As a rule the mass of men are more or less indifferent to issues which do not concern their personal fortunes. Therefore any man who has a decided conviction on a subject of public rather than private interest, who talks of it in a persuasive and persistent way, never Is to bring over to his view of the question a con- | siderable number of those who were without definite opinions about it. The men who exert their in- fluence in that way become strong factors in the com- munity and are of value to it. By such men the cam- paign of education should be made in this instance. If every staunch friend of progress in San Francisco will do his share the necessary two-thirds vote will be given for the improvements proposed at each >f the two elections and the city will begin the new era | by work which will go far to assure the bright fii- ture that all expect. WHITE HOUSE PLANS. EPORTS from Washington are to the effect that efforts more strenuous than ever are to be made this winter to obtain from Congress some action in regard to providing suitable accom- modations for the President. The White House was ample for the needs of the chief executive in the days when it was erected, but with the growth of the re- | public the clerical force attached to the Presidential | i office has increased, the number and extent of state entertainments have augmented, and in other ways a need has arisen for more room than the old man- sion affords. By way of forming popular sentiment on the sub- ject and rousing Congress to action some doleful tales are told of the condition of the structure and the dangers which threaten when large crowds are assembled there. According to these stories the old timbers were evidently not laid with a view to such a strain, and bends and breaks have occurred from time to time till certain parts of the interior of the building are relics of ingenious patchwork. The main staircase gave way in President Arthur's time, and had to be tied into place with chains, which tra- dition says are still doing duty, hidden in a partition. A beam under one of the doorways throngh which hundreds of persons sometimes pass in a day cracked several years ago and had to be reinforced with metal plates and bolts. It is said an enterprising mechanic, | who attached the cold-air box to the present heating apparatus, finding one of the masonry arches in the cellar in his way, cut through it to save a deflection, thus making it necessary to put in a less satisfactory support after his trick had been discovered. It is, moreover, asserted to be an open secret in Washing- ton that the floors of the parlors and state corridors always have to be sustained by rows of temporary wooden piers when the President holds his receptions. That some improvement is necded all parties are agreed, but there are wide diffcrences of opinion as to what form the improvement should take. One party advocates the enlargement of the present structure by the addition of another range of buildings of equal | length fronting the present one and connected with it by pavilions so as to inclose a court; another set pro- poses the addition of spacious wings extending to the right and the leit of the building, one to serve as the private apartments of the President and hist family, | the other for grand state balls and banquets, while the old building is reserved for the executive offices; but a third party urges the erection of a new mansion on a new site in the residence part of the city. These differences of opinion have long been among the causes for delay in making the required improve- ment. They may have that effect again, but for once the Washington people seem inclined to settle upon | one of the three plans and urge it with united force. Of the three it is likely that which advocates a man- sion on a new site will be chosen, as it has the ad- | vantage of affording a chance to improve real estate values in a new locality as well as of adding another stately edifice to the many which now make Washing- ton from an architectural point of view one of the most splendid capitals in the world. l §+04040404040404040404040+04040404.040404040404040404 040404040 40404040+ Mooog ¥ * : MUST TAKE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. $ + 2 Henry N. Clement, Replying to George D. Squires, Says the Law Clearly Provides for Temporary Appoint- ::: % ments, but Examinations Will Be Necessary if Appointees Want to Keep Their Places. @+04040 404040404 040404040 4040404040404 04040404040404040404040404040404040+ The Call does not hold itselt responsible for the opirions published in this column, but pre- gents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call: In a recent issue of your paper there was a communication from George D. Squires, a lawyer of this city, In which Mr. Squires sought to dem- onstrate to the general public the legal proposition that the civil service law in the charter would prove to be inoperative as to the deputies, clerks and employes first appointed by the heads of depart- ments and officers to take office under the charter January §, 19%. Either purposely or unwittingly Mr. Squires failed to make mention, in his communication, of the very clause of the civil service law which avowedly makes the law operative and applicable to the first appointees. The omission seemed to me so flagrant and inexcusable that I replied to Mr. Squires’ communication, not for the purpose of en- tering into a newspaper controversy with him upon a question of law (for such con- troversies are always barren of practical results), but solely for the purpose of calling attention to the conspicuous ab- sence of any mention by him of the par- ticular section of the civil service law which provides for the temporary ap- pointment by the new city and county of- ficers of deputies, clerks and employes to act until such time as regular appoint- ments can be made under the civil service act. Instead of gratefully accepting and wel- coming my correction of his really inex- cusable omisslon, in the cause of truth, he proceeded (as all newspaper controver- sialists do) to resent my kindly intended correction as an “interference,” to refer to me somewhat irrelevantly as a “‘candi- date” for Civil Service Commissioner “at the hands of Mayor Phelan” (which I am not), and to what he ambiguously terms “‘uncover” me he author of the civil service ‘botc (Whatever odlum may be attached to this last charge will be en- dured with becoming fortitude.) 1 had not !huufhl of replylug at all to Mr. Squires, for 1 have not time to write law briefs for publication; but during the | past week 1 have had many requests from | Pprominent cttizens and from two county | officers-elect asking me to set forth fully and clearly my views of the civil service law as to its applicability to the new ap- pointees; and 1 will therefore, with your | permission, reply to Mr. Squires’ commu- nication on that subject. Mr. Squires claims in his communica- | tion that the clause of section 10 of the | civil service article quoted in my briet letter to The Call “has no application whatever to the case,” and asks why 1 do not “proceed to elaborate a theory of construction by which the civil service | provisions of the charter can be made to | apply to appointments conferred by the heads of the city government on Janu- ary 8. Now to “elaborate a theory of con- | struction” implies a precedent obscurity and presupposes an ambiguity. If the language of a law is plain we are not | called upon to invoke the rules of con- struction in order to know what it means. It is not for me or for those whose | duty it shall be to enforce the civil serv- | ice law, but it will be for Mr. Squires on behalf of his clients, “the push,” to “elaborate a theory of construction” | which will enable THEM to overthrow | ;\nd defeat the object and purpose of the aw. One of the fundamental rules of con- | struction is that If there arises a doubt as to the meaning of a law it must be| read and construed as a whole so as to | accomplish, if possible, the legislative | purpose and intent in its adoption. | Applying this fundamental rule of con- struction to the civil service law we find | in every provision and in all parts of it the Intention plainly expressed that all the deputies, cleris and employes of the | city and county government shall be sub- | ject to civil service examinations, and | that those first temporarily selected will | retain their positions only until such time as appointments can be made under the | clivil service ruies. In the first place, section 36, article XVI of the charter provides that the Mayor shall, between December 1, 159, and Janu- ary 1, 1900, appoint the commissioners, The commissioners, when appointed, will have full authority to enforce and carry out the provisions of the civil service act at the hour ‘of noon on January 8, 1900. Stmultaneously with the civil service com- | missioners going into office all the other heads of departments and officers will go | with into office at the same hour. Section 10 of the civil service law au- thorizes the heads of departments and officers, with the approval of the civil ervice commissioners, to make immedi- ate temporary appointments as follows: - REVE! THE STOPPAGE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS or to meet extraor- dinary exigencies the head of any depart- ment or office may, WITH AP PROVAL OF THE COMMISSIONERS, make TEMPORARY appointments, to re- main in force not exceeding sixty days, and ONLY until REGULAR appoint- ments, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE CAN BE MADE.” What lauguage could be plainer than this? To what state of facts does It ap- Ply? Obviously to the change from the old system to the new. The words: “To prevent the stoppage of public business” simply mean that dur- ing the transition period from the old to the new system of choosing clerks, depu- tles and employes, the heads of depart- ments or officers, “may, with the ap- proval of the commissioners,” make “temporary appointments’ until “regular appointments” under the provis of the civil service act “‘can be mad This is the plain and obvious meaning and appli- cation of the language of the law itself. No “construction” 1s necessary. Agaln, the language Is: “To prevent the stoppage of public business, OR TO MEET XTRAORDINARY EMER- GENCIES, the head of any department or officer may, ete.” The law not only provides that the public_business shail rot be PREVENT! the new charter further provides the same method to MEET ANY FUTURE EMERGENCY that may ARISE. The Civil Service Commissioners are not only clothed with authority to PREVENT ANY STOF PAGE of BUSINESS in the flrst plac when the charter goes into effect, by also at any time thereafter TO MEET any EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY they‘ may “authorize temporary appoint- ments.” Then again section 11 of the civil service law provides as follow: ““All officers, courts of departments vested in this charter the power to appoint deputies, clerks, stenographers or employes in any of the offices or departments of the city and county mentioned in this section shall make such appointments IN CON. @ g s 2 2 2 a g boards and neads FORMITY WITH THE RULES A PROV. S PRESCRIBED BY T} RTICLE, AND ANY APPOINTMENT NOT SO MADE SHALL BE VOII Here the language is equally plain and free from ambiguity. It requires that all appointments shall be made *in con- formity with the rules and provisions pre- scribed by this article.” What are “the rules and rrlfl'lslons prescribed by th article?” Ts not section 10 above quote a part of “this article?” Under the pr. visions of section 10 all heads of depart- | ments and officers may with the approval | is of the Commissioners “make temporary appointments ® ® ¢ until regular ap- pointments under the provisions of this article can be made.” If the heads departments_and officers should assume to make PERMANENT instead of TEM- PORARY appointments what would bhe | the consequence? Section 11 answers the question. It says: ANY APPOIN' I\IFZ{\IZ)TS NOT SO MADE SHALL BE VoID.” Here, then, are two provisions of th law, both entirely free from ambiguit setting forth as plainly as human la guage can speak the intention of the law makers that the provisions of the civil| service law shall take effect and be oper tive instantly upon the charter itself tak. ing effect. Under such circumstances I decline to “‘elaborate a theory of construc- tion.” I will leave the laborious, not to say Impossible, task to Mr. Squires, sur-| mising that he will have similar succe: to that of the counsel for the other mem- | bers of “the push” who recently sought | before the Supreme Court to negative the lain provisions of section S§i, article | ;(L of the constitution by “an elaborate | theory of the construction,” with the re- | sult that a distinguished member of the bench, Justice McFarland, disposed of it | by simply referring to the section itseif as a sufficient answer to all the learned arguments. Now, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions to which I have called atten- tlon, Mr. Squires makes the stranga ;\r position that because the Civil T- vice Commissioners first appointed wiil have to ‘“ciassify” the places of emplo ment, make rules for examinations applicants and hold examinations ur them preliminary to the selection of a licants for appointments, as regaired n sections 2, 3 and 4 of the act, all of which will necessarily take from four to six weeks to accomplish, that therefore all the deputies, clerks and employes first appointed will be exempt from examina- tion and may hold on to their places in spite of the civil service law. He reaches this conclusion by simply ignoring section 10 of the civil servi law, which I have quoted, or which is the same thing, saying that “it does not apply.” Let quote section 10 agaln. It is as follows: “To prevent the stoppage of publie business or to meet extraordinary :mer- gencles (he head of any depai.ment or office may, with the approval of the cot missioners, make temporary appoini- ments, to remain in force not exceeding sixty days and only until regulac a pointments under the provision of t article can be made.” Mr. Squires suggests that section 10 re- fers to the “classified” service provided by the charter; that the Commissioners are given authority over no other ser- vice than the “classified” service; that the Commissioners can grant permission to the heads of departments and officers to appoint porary clerks, deputies and employes hout examination only In the “classified” service. and he argues that, inasmuch as the service is not and cannot be “classified” on January 8, 190, the first day the Commissioners take thelr seats, therefcre they will have mno au- thority to grant their approval to the heads of departments and officers (o make temporary appointments From what source does Mr. Squires learn that the Commissioners shall huve no power or authority to grant their ap- proval to the making of temporary ap- pointments by the heads of departmen and officers until after they shall nave assified”” the service? Does section 10 anything of the kind? Is anything of the kind said In any other part of the act? On the contrary, does the act not, by its very terms, provide for the emer- gency which will surely arise at the coming into being of the new city govein- ment; when no “classification” of the service will exist or can possibly exist when it will be necessary that some ar- rangement shall be made for tempuriry appointments (pending classification and examinations under the civil service rule) “to_prevent the slorpa‘- of the public business.” It was for just this emer- gency that section 10 was incorpotated into the civil service act. It provides n terms for action before the “classifica- tion” can be accomplished, and provides that the “temporary” appointments shall cease the very moment ‘“regular’ ap- pointments are made under the act. Mr. Squires lmnocently asks, “How can the commission grant permission in case of emergency to make temporary appoint- ments to any other than the classified service?’ To which I reply: They do so by virtue of the authority expressly con- ferred upon them by section 10 of the act, in whicl there Is nothing sald about “classification.” The very object and pur- pose of section 10 was to provide for the emergency of there being no classification and “to prevent the stoppage of public business” by disregarding it until classi- fication apd ‘“regular’” appointmen thereunder could be made. It would be a | waste of time and insult to our Intelli- :;-nce to “elaborate” the point any fur- ther. If the heads of departments or officers shall attempt to _evade the civil service law by refusing TO REMOVE the clerks, deputies and employes whom they are re- quired to appolnt temporarily on January 5, 1900, at the expiration of sixty days to make way for the regular appointees un- der the civil service law they will be guilty of a flagrant violation of law, and any officer who attempts to evade the plain provisions of the law will not only receive the merited opprobrium and con- tempt of every good citizen of this city but will also be proceeded agalinst accord- ing to law. Section 20 of the civil service law gives full power to the Commissioners to institute and prosecute legal proceed- ings for any violation of the provision of the law. The xu]ltlrh\ns and spollsmen who may succeed in getting “‘temporary” appoint- ments for “a perfod not exceeding sixty days” after January §, 190, will not by that means secure any n on so-called political jobs. The civil vice law doe: not recognize them as political positio Those who may receive temporary ap- pointments will have no more right to re- main at the close of their temporary ap- pointment than any one else. If they want to keep their places they must take civil service examinations precisely as other people do that have no “pull. Mr. Squires evidently questions the va- lidity of that part of the civil service law which provides for non-removal of faith- ful appointees during good behavior. When that question is raised it will be time to meet it. Respectfully, HENRY LEMENT. San Francisco, Dec. 1. N. C AROUND THE CORRIDORS Charles King, a wealthy cattleman of Hanford, is a guest at the Lick. 3 Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Minton are among the late arrivals at the Occidental. Robert Wilcox, a wealthy sugar planter of Honolulu, is a guest at the Lick. B. Guggenheim, a wealthy merchant of Yokohama, is a guest at the Palace. .C. Busjager, a traveler from Bremen, is among the arrivals of last night at the Palace. David Starr Jordan came up from Stan- ford yesterday and is staying at the Uc- cidental. George Berg, a fortunate ofl speculator of Panoche, is registered for a short stay at the Lick. A. F. Sargeaunt, a prominent rancher of San Diego is among the late arrivals at the Lick. H. M. McMurchy, the famous wingshot, is registered at the Grand from his home in Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs, H. Roberts, two promi- nent society people of San Jose, are regis- tered at the California. J. B. Lippincott of the United States Geological Survey is among the arrivals of yesterday at the Palace. W. H. Bradley, a wealthy merchant of Singapore, 1s a guest at the Palace. He arrived yesterday on the Coptic from the Orient. Ferris Hartman arrived in the city yes- terday from New York. He will again play at the Tivoll after an absence of over two years. B. Prianishinkow and J. Edelstem, two travelers from Russia, are at the Pal- ace. They arrived in the city yesterday on the Coptic from Japan. Mr. and Mrs. Pugh of England are at the Palace, accompanied by their dangh- ters. They are on a pleasure and sight- seeing tour of the United States. Attorney General W. O. Smith of Hon- olulu is a guest at the Occidental, where he arrived yesterday from his island home. e is en route to Washington. C. W. Clifton, a merchant of Formosa, 1s registered at the Palace. He arrived in the city yesterday on the Coptic and is on his way East on an extended business trip, H. BE. Huntington left Friday evening for Los Angeles and Mexico. He goes on a tour <f investigation over the differ ent lines and properties owned by the Southern Pacific Company. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint have come up from their home in San Juan and are registered at the Palace for a short visit. Herbert A. Kidder has come down from Sacramento and is staying at the Call- fornia. Leigh Hunt of New York, who has been investigating Korean mining properties in which he is heavily interested, was one of those who arrived in the city yes- terday on the Coptlc, and ir registered at the Palace. Carleton C. Crane, Pacific Coast passen- ger agent of the New York Central lines, returned yesterday morning from Monte- rey in the private car Mishawaki, which has been sccured by a distinguished party of Eastern tourists. The car ptoceeded to Easterh points attached to last eveaing's overland tcain. Mrs. Willlam Haywood, wife of the Consul General of Homolulu, was one of those who arrived on the Coptic yester- day and went to the Occldental. Mrs. Haywood is accompanied by her two chil- dren and is on her way back to her home in Washington, D. C., where she will make a short visit. i L e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Thomas Wing of San Francisco is at the Empire. C. N. Beal of San Francisco is at the Holland. E. H. Morgan of Los Angeles is at the Manhattan. Mrs. Charles M. Keeney and Misa Innes S. Keeney, of San Francisco, are at the Netherland ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE CABINET—E., Martinez, Cal. There has been a change in the Cabinet of President McKinley in the past six months. Elihu Root succeeded Russell A. Alger as Secretary of War last July. TEA CULTURE-S. A. M., City. The article on tea culture published in the Sunday Magazine of The Call a few weeks ago gives the name of Pine Hurst as the locality. It is in the State of South Caro- lina, In ‘the vicinity of the Ashley River. TWO CHIMNEYS-L. L., City. The chimney of the Market Street Rallway Company at the junction of Market and Valencia streets 1s 175 fect in height, while the helfh of the chimney at the Sanita ;in:ucl on Works on the Potrero is cet. AUDITOR OF THE NAVY-W. W.. Wadsworth, Nev. The auditor of the United States Navy Department at Wash- ington, D. C, is not a naval officer. He is appointed by the President and con- nrmeti by the Senate. b SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO-J. L., Va- llejo, Cal. That portion of San Franclsco City and County south of the line of Islals Creek to the county line of San Mateo is generally known as South San Francisco knnill".:lm Cour'x“ h(:-rw is a section hown en. which has name of South San Franciscor® P OmCe A CITIZEN'S RIGHT-J. T. R., City. A citizen has the right to make an ar- rest for a crime committed in his pres- ence or to make an arrest if he has rea- son to belleve that a felony has been committed. Further, it makes no differ- ence if the offender be an officer in full uniform and on his beat. The fact that 4 man sworn as an officer while in uni- form and on duty should rob a man would not protect him from arrest by a_citizen. The contention of your friend that the uniform would, under such circumstances, prevent a citizen from exercising his duty is fallacious. 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